Curiouser and curiouser
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shadowhiveI’m feeling a little more centred now, though I’m definitely still frustrated about yesterday. I dunno how people can be such assholes (and liars).
Yesterday I ended up reading two fics, including a ray-centric one bydreamersdare and this one, the latest in a Ben/Diego/Klaus au which is really cute.
Also yesterday I watched a Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes on channel 5. If you’ve not seen the stuff she’s done it’s always really great, she’s done a few programmes about the ancient world. It makes me want to go to the Greek island but, since I can’t, it also makes me wanna go in Assassins Creed Odyssey. Maybe I will once I’ve finished the Who special features.
Today we went out down the canal way, where I took a thing to try and get tadpoles for the pond but alas I only got one and some tiny fish. On the way back we saw someone riding a horse which made Naryu excited (and the ones in the field rush over to see).
I also booked Naryu in to have her hair cut next week, against my better judgement, I think it’s too soon for such places to even be open but mums been hassling me about it since we saw it was open again. I’m not looking forward to leaving her there, but she hates us trying to cut or brush her.
Under the cut is gonna be thoughts on two films, Happy Death Day from last night and Avengers Endgame from today.
So last night I watched Happy Death Day on Film4. I’d heard of it, but not seen it and the concept sounded interesting. Basically the main character is Tree and it’s her birthday. She’s also a thoroughly unpleasant person. However at the end of the day she dies... only to then wake up at the start of the next day, trying to find out who is killing her and why.
Due to her being so unpleasant there’s no shortage of suspects but as the film goes on those get eliminated one by one. Either literally (by being killed by the killer as they get to her) or by realising they don’t hate her enough to go that far.
There’s no explanation provided as to exactly why the day is looping for her, though as it goes on it’s clear the damage from the deaths is taking its toll.
On the whole I thought it was pretty good, though it’s probably not something I’d watch again. There’s a sequel been released since then and I’m kinda curious but not enough to actively track it down.
So last week I ended up watching Infinity War cause mum asked if we’d seen all the Guardians Of The Galaxy films recently (we had). And after that she wanted to watch Endgame. It was a bit long to watch on SunDay, so we watched it today.
Now it’s the first time I’ve seen since watching it in the cinema at the midnight showing. To be honest I haven’t really wanted to but it wasn’t as bad as I’d remembered, although the main thing that bothers me about it still bothers me which I’ll get to.
The film can be broadly split into three parts. The first deals with the aftermath of infinity war and the remaining team trying to work out what to do. The main plan (once captain marvel is brings iron man and nebula back) is to track down Thanos and undo the snap. A simple plan, which of course fails because thanos used the stones to get rid of the stones (but since the stones are aspects of the universe isn’t that a bad thing to too?). After that fails, there’s a time skip of five years which introduces us to the main problem I (and others) have.
Steve is at a meeting with people that lost loved ones due to the snap. The problem? The person he brings up there isn’t anyone that he lost in snap. Not his teammates, not his best friend from childhood. No the person he brings up is Peggy. Someone from his past who died of old age. Why would he think of her and not any of the people he lost then?
His arc for the captain America films were centred on Bucky and yet that gets utterly disregarded throughout this film. In fact he only mentions him once (to past Steve) and has one conversation with him when he’s bought back (after which, despite losing him for a second time, he promptly abandons him). Not only does him going back in to pine and staying there at the end feel like a disservice to his character and arc, it also feels like it is to Peggy. In her series, Agent Carter, it’s shown that she struggled to move on from losing him, but eventually started to do so. So to see that the film ended with them together just felt... wrong for them both,
Anyway!
Second part of the film was the focus of the film, a ‘time heist’ to get the infinity stones from the past. In essence it became a showcase of some of the moments of the least films. But before that two member of the team that went awol are recruited. (Although it was good showing how Natasha had taken charge.) the first was Thor on New Asgard, which showed that at least some Asgardians from the refugee ship survived to make it to earth (presumably half). Thor’s depressed, seeing himself as a failure so he’s withdrawn (and big, which I liked). By contrast there’s Hawkeye who has gone on a killing spree (killing criminals who he doesn’t think deserved to live, though honestly wouldn’t the snap have... I dunno made people reconsider crime?). Hawkeye might look good with his arm tatt and hawk but... well. They welcome him back too easily and there’s no space given to what he’d done (in fact he essentially gets to ‘live happily ever after’ despite all he did).
The time heist is split into three, a team to Asgard, New York and space. Asgard goes back to events of Thor The Dark World and it leads to a nice moment of Thor with his mum which I really liked. Team two goes back to New York to events of Avengers Assemble where there’s three stones all in the city at the same time. (And no, the film never explains if Thanos new the mind stone was in the staff he gave Loki or if he did why he had it). This leads to nice moments with a Steve on Steve fight, America’s ass and the aftermath of the battle of New York, and showing what the ancient one was doing and giving a discussion in the flow of time (which is already screwed up by Loki getting the tesseract and vwoping away to parts unknown.
Which then leads to half of team two going far back in time, which includes Tony having a nice moment with his dad and Steve seeing Peggy through a window.
Team three’s space thing is where problems start, they split, half going to Vormir and half to Morag (which leads to an amusing rehash of the opening of Guardians) though it also leads to past Thanos finding out what’s going on and attempting to time travel to the future causa nebula (though how they manage that is a little unclear and, again, creates timey wimey stuff).
As soon as Nat and Clint went to Vormir I was sure Nat wouldn’t come back. In fact I had an image in my head if Clint just throwing her off the ledge to get the soul stone. That didn’t happen and they fought to sacrifice themselves but I still think the wrong one of the pair died.
The last part is the final battle with a time travelling Thanos and his army (all on one ship conveniently) come back and then an epic showdown with pretty much everyone who is bought back. It is an epic battle and is impressive.the finale is focussed on Tony’s funeral and then not much thought is given to the rest. Thor joins the guardians (I hope we see that adventure) and then there’s Steve going back and staying there before passing the shield on. And then it ends.
So yeah, that’s my thoughts on it. It’s actually better than I thought it would be and the good moments are good, but the bad moments are what linger. Hopefully the upcoming Winter Soldier and Falcon series give Bucky a chance to get frustrated over Steve abandoning him and Wandavision will explain... whatever that’s about. (And is Loki series gonna focus on his past, or the one that escaped or was he bought back due to the undoing snap?)
I think next week I’ll watch Spiderman Homecoming since I picked it up from the shopping a few items back.
...That ended up longer then a I expected, oops.
I’m watching the Tutankhamun thing cause it’s on BB2 now then I’m gonna watch a film I think. I might game after that, or go back on Deliver Us The Moon. Depending on my mood.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Yesterday I ended up reading two fics, including a ray-centric one by
dreamersdare and this one, the latest in a Ben/Diego/Klaus au which is really cute.Also yesterday I watched a Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes on channel 5. If you’ve not seen the stuff she’s done it’s always really great, she’s done a few programmes about the ancient world. It makes me want to go to the Greek island but, since I can’t, it also makes me wanna go in Assassins Creed Odyssey. Maybe I will once I’ve finished the Who special features.
Today we went out down the canal way, where I took a thing to try and get tadpoles for the pond but alas I only got one and some tiny fish. On the way back we saw someone riding a horse which made Naryu excited (and the ones in the field rush over to see).
I also booked Naryu in to have her hair cut next week, against my better judgement, I think it’s too soon for such places to even be open but mums been hassling me about it since we saw it was open again. I’m not looking forward to leaving her there, but she hates us trying to cut or brush her.
Under the cut is gonna be thoughts on two films, Happy Death Day from last night and Avengers Endgame from today.
So last night I watched Happy Death Day on Film4. I’d heard of it, but not seen it and the concept sounded interesting. Basically the main character is Tree and it’s her birthday. She’s also a thoroughly unpleasant person. However at the end of the day she dies... only to then wake up at the start of the next day, trying to find out who is killing her and why.
Due to her being so unpleasant there’s no shortage of suspects but as the film goes on those get eliminated one by one. Either literally (by being killed by the killer as they get to her) or by realising they don’t hate her enough to go that far.
There’s no explanation provided as to exactly why the day is looping for her, though as it goes on it’s clear the damage from the deaths is taking its toll.
On the whole I thought it was pretty good, though it’s probably not something I’d watch again. There’s a sequel been released since then and I’m kinda curious but not enough to actively track it down.
So last week I ended up watching Infinity War cause mum asked if we’d seen all the Guardians Of The Galaxy films recently (we had). And after that she wanted to watch Endgame. It was a bit long to watch on SunDay, so we watched it today.
Now it’s the first time I’ve seen since watching it in the cinema at the midnight showing. To be honest I haven’t really wanted to but it wasn’t as bad as I’d remembered, although the main thing that bothers me about it still bothers me which I’ll get to.
The film can be broadly split into three parts. The first deals with the aftermath of infinity war and the remaining team trying to work out what to do. The main plan (once captain marvel is brings iron man and nebula back) is to track down Thanos and undo the snap. A simple plan, which of course fails because thanos used the stones to get rid of the stones (but since the stones are aspects of the universe isn’t that a bad thing to too?). After that fails, there’s a time skip of five years which introduces us to the main problem I (and others) have.
Steve is at a meeting with people that lost loved ones due to the snap. The problem? The person he brings up there isn’t anyone that he lost in snap. Not his teammates, not his best friend from childhood. No the person he brings up is Peggy. Someone from his past who died of old age. Why would he think of her and not any of the people he lost then?
His arc for the captain America films were centred on Bucky and yet that gets utterly disregarded throughout this film. In fact he only mentions him once (to past Steve) and has one conversation with him when he’s bought back (after which, despite losing him for a second time, he promptly abandons him). Not only does him going back in to pine and staying there at the end feel like a disservice to his character and arc, it also feels like it is to Peggy. In her series, Agent Carter, it’s shown that she struggled to move on from losing him, but eventually started to do so. So to see that the film ended with them together just felt... wrong for them both,
Anyway!
Second part of the film was the focus of the film, a ‘time heist’ to get the infinity stones from the past. In essence it became a showcase of some of the moments of the least films. But before that two member of the team that went awol are recruited. (Although it was good showing how Natasha had taken charge.) the first was Thor on New Asgard, which showed that at least some Asgardians from the refugee ship survived to make it to earth (presumably half). Thor’s depressed, seeing himself as a failure so he’s withdrawn (and big, which I liked). By contrast there’s Hawkeye who has gone on a killing spree (killing criminals who he doesn’t think deserved to live, though honestly wouldn’t the snap have... I dunno made people reconsider crime?). Hawkeye might look good with his arm tatt and hawk but... well. They welcome him back too easily and there’s no space given to what he’d done (in fact he essentially gets to ‘live happily ever after’ despite all he did).
The time heist is split into three, a team to Asgard, New York and space. Asgard goes back to events of Thor The Dark World and it leads to a nice moment of Thor with his mum which I really liked. Team two goes back to New York to events of Avengers Assemble where there’s three stones all in the city at the same time. (And no, the film never explains if Thanos new the mind stone was in the staff he gave Loki or if he did why he had it). This leads to nice moments with a Steve on Steve fight, America’s ass and the aftermath of the battle of New York, and showing what the ancient one was doing and giving a discussion in the flow of time (which is already screwed up by Loki getting the tesseract and vwoping away to parts unknown.
Which then leads to half of team two going far back in time, which includes Tony having a nice moment with his dad and Steve seeing Peggy through a window.
Team three’s space thing is where problems start, they split, half going to Vormir and half to Morag (which leads to an amusing rehash of the opening of Guardians) though it also leads to past Thanos finding out what’s going on and attempting to time travel to the future causa nebula (though how they manage that is a little unclear and, again, creates timey wimey stuff).
As soon as Nat and Clint went to Vormir I was sure Nat wouldn’t come back. In fact I had an image in my head if Clint just throwing her off the ledge to get the soul stone. That didn’t happen and they fought to sacrifice themselves but I still think the wrong one of the pair died.
The last part is the final battle with a time travelling Thanos and his army (all on one ship conveniently) come back and then an epic showdown with pretty much everyone who is bought back. It is an epic battle and is impressive.the finale is focussed on Tony’s funeral and then not much thought is given to the rest. Thor joins the guardians (I hope we see that adventure) and then there’s Steve going back and staying there before passing the shield on. And then it ends.
So yeah, that’s my thoughts on it. It’s actually better than I thought it would be and the good moments are good, but the bad moments are what linger. Hopefully the upcoming Winter Soldier and Falcon series give Bucky a chance to get frustrated over Steve abandoning him and Wandavision will explain... whatever that’s about. (And is Loki series gonna focus on his past, or the one that escaped or was he bought back due to the undoing snap?)
I think next week I’ll watch Spiderman Homecoming since I picked it up from the shopping a few items back.
...That ended up longer then a I expected, oops.
I’m watching the Tutankhamun thing cause it’s on BB2 now then I’m gonna watch a film I think. I might game after that, or go back on Deliver Us The Moon. Depending on my mood.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
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Date: 2020-06-21 10:42 am (UTC)I get it, RDJ was leaving and you wanted to give Tony the big heroic send off, blah, blah, blah, and Chris Evans was also out of contract. I don't care. If you need to kill them both, then kill them both - it would have had more impact, frankly - but don't write the character like he's been replaced by a goddamn pod person
*grumpgrumpgrump*
(I now refuse to watch Marvel films at the cinema; I think Spiderman might have been the last one I went to see. They incite too much rage, and that's impolite in public)
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Date: 2020-06-21 10:54 am (UTC)Giving Tony such a send off worked great (though I’d have preferred if he’d have lived but whatever). But yeah exactly! It would’ve been so easy to kill Steve off too instead of doing... that with him
(And honestly having him in the past just creates more issues. So we’re meant to believe he went back in time with the knowledge that Hydra was in control of shield and that Bucky was alive and being tortured and he just... let that happen?)
*hugs you*
I’ll probably continue watching them in the cinema (that is if cinema’s are still a thing when this is all over) but yeah I can see why you’d think like that 🖤
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Date: 2020-06-21 01:24 pm (UTC)This. Thisthisthisthisthis. This is exactly my issue with that bullshit ending. I therefore decided it did not happen, and that was clearly a figment of my imagination (to be fair, I basically ignore any and all MCU canon post Winter Soldier when I'm writing fic. Because there is so much horseshit floating around in there that I just can't deal with it. Except for the fact that Bucky and Sam and buds. Because Bucky and Sam!
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Date: 2020-06-21 04:25 pm (UTC)The winter soldier is definitely the best of Cap’s two films and it’s one of the best of the whole MCU.
Awww yeah! Their friendship is so nice!
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Date: 2020-06-21 11:26 pm (UTC)Totally agree; I freaking love CA:WS. That one I saw in the cinema twice; it's a beautifully executed film.
Bucky and Sam give me hearteyes, no lie :)
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Date: 2020-06-21 11:31 pm (UTC)I only saw it once but it really is!
aww good🖤
One film series that really bugs me when it comes to internal consistsncy is the live action Resident Evil films. I dunno if you’ve seen them but the more the series goes on the less sense it makes (especially the final one which seems to want to tie things together by adding things that weren’t even hinted at) and just...
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Date: 2020-06-21 11:50 pm (UTC)I think I saw the first RE film many years ago (because it had James Purefoy in it and I had/have a massive crush on him). I don't think I ever watched any of the others, although my housemate at the time watched the second one, and suggested I didn't bother... But, c'mon people, consistency and foreshadowing. It's not that hard!
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Date: 2020-06-21 11:58 pm (UTC)I really liked the second one! And the first is so good! 🥰 one thing that annoys me about the resident evil films is that some of them end with a sequel hook scene.... and then just don’t pick up on it. And then the last one tries to act like there was some grand overarching plan that doesn’t make sense (after ignoring said hook from the film before it) and just... ugh
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Date: 2020-06-23 12:53 pm (UTC)I suspect... different jobbing writers? So they basically work off a brief and ignore everything that came before? Bloody hollywood.
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Date: 2020-06-23 12:56 pm (UTC)Maybe! Damn people **pokes them and hugs*
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Date: 2020-06-27 01:07 pm (UTC)I do think movie verse Clint could be a bit of a dick -- I much prefer the comic version, but I do get why he went all Ronin after losing his family. Was it a healthy way to deal? Not at all, but after his childhood and forming a family he kept so well hidden only to have them torn from him, well, no wonder he went the way he did.
Mainly what I didn't like was Nat's death was overshadowed by Tony's. She really should have got a better send-off.
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Date: 2020-06-27 01:21 pm (UTC)Yeah that’s so true (I dunno about comics version since I’ve not read much of them)
Yeah that’s so true. It felt like no one really got a chance to mourn over her or anything